Bill Nieder


athletics
silver	1956 Melbourne	Shot put
gold	1960 Rome	Shot put

Bill Nieder (actually William Henry Nieder ; born October 10, 1933 in Hempstead , New York ) is a former American shot putter who was successful in the shot put in the 1950s . He broke three world records and became an Olympic champion in 1960 .

As a student at Kansas University, he was the first to poke the 5.5 and 7.5 kg bullet over 18 m. In the shadow of Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long , he won only two national championships:

1955 ( NCAA ) with 17.45 m
1957 ( AAU ) with 18.76 m

Bill's sporting career began with little promise: As a 19-year-old he sustained a serious injury to his left knee while playing football , which was sewn with 44 stitches after a four-hour operation. Since he could no longer play football, he concentrated on the shot put and achieved in 1955 - the knee wrapped in leather - a considerable distance of 17.66 m. His scholarship was taken over by the athletics coach Bill Easton , who recognized his talent and systematically promoted it. This wasn't his first sports injury. Easton is said to have said of him, either he does not recover from the 12 operations with 148 stitches up to then - or he hits a world record. Easton, who was also the assistant coach of the football team and who had already brought out Al Oerter , had the corresponding comparative values for maximum strength and cultivated a special body education culture. He was rewarded with a silver medal in his first Olympic appearance in Melbourne in 1956 and two world records. His second Olympic participation in Rome in 1960 was called into question after he was handicapped by a hand injury and only finished fourth in the trials . A little later, however, his teammate Dave Davis had to retire injured from the Olympic team and Bill Nieder was allowed to move up. Shortly before taking off for Rome, he underlined his medal ambitions in an impressive way: In Walnut , he was the first person on earth to exceed the dream limit of 20 m. His improvements in performance have been linked to his proximity to football and the use of anabolic steroids already in use there.

After his Olympic victory in Rome, he gave up the shot put and became a boxer, but was already knocked out in his first fight on May 15, 1961 against the average boxer Jim Whiley after 126 seconds.After his re-amateurization and return to athletics, he was unable to make it to the top of the world find more.

He is 1.90 m tall and weighed 102 kg during his playing days.

successes

Olympic games

1956 in Melbourne : Silver with 18.18 m behind Parry O'Brien with 18.57 m and in front of the Czech Jíři Skobla with 17.65 m
1960 in Rome : Gold with 19.68 m ahead of Parry O'Brien with 19.11 m and Dallas Long with 19.01 m

World records

19.45 m on March 19, 1960 in Palo Alto
19.99 m on April 2, 1960 in Austin
20.06 m on August 12, 1960 in Walnut (This performance lasted 1 ¾ years)

Performance development

year	Bullet
1955, May 20 in Lawrence	17.66 m
1956, May 19 in Manhattan	18.38 m
1957, April 20 in Lawrence	18.94 m
1958, May 3rd in San José	18.36 m
1959, May 28 in Santa Barbara	19.12 m
1960, August 12th in Walnut	20.06 m

Web links

www.wulkana.republika.pl
www.hickoksports.com ( Memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Bill Nieder in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. up 08/25/2016 @1@ 2

↑ Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer (Ed.): Kraftkörper - Körperkraft. To understand physical culture and fitness yesterday and today. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the entrance hall of the new university library. 3.7. - 31.7. 1995 (= Göttingen library publications , vol. 8). Göttingen: Universitätsdruckerei 1995. ISBN 3-930457-06-7 .

↑ Terry Todd: A History of the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Sport, in Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine , ed. Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 319-350; Terry Todd, Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport, Journal of Sport History 14, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 87-107. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1987/JSH1401/jsh1401g.pdf on . 08/25/2016

personal data
SURNAME	Down, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Down, William Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hempstead , New York

[1] - ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. up 08/25/2016 @1@ 2

[2] Arnd Krüger , Bernd Wedemeyer (Ed.): Kraftkörper - Körperkraft. To understand physical culture and fitness yesterday and today. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the entrance hall of the new university library. 3.7. - 31.7. 1995 (= Göttingen library publications , vol. 8). Göttingen: Universitätsdruckerei 1995. ISBN 3-930457-06-7 .

[3] Terry Todd: A History of the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Sport, in Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine , ed. Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992), 319-350; Terry Todd, Anabolic Steroids: The Gremlins of Sport, Journal of Sport History 14, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 87-107. http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1987/JSH1401/jsh1401g.pdf on . 08/25/2016